How to Tell a True War Story

Who did Rat Kiley write to about Curt Lemon's death?

• Curt's Mom

• Curt's Sister

• Tim O'Brien

• Nobody

What were Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley doing when Curt was killed?

• Playing with a smoke grenade.

• Fighting

• Playing with a yo-yo.

• Napping

What does Mitchell Sanders say is the moral of his story?

• There is no moral.

• War is hell.

• Nobody listens.

• People only hear what they want to hear.

What image does O'Brien use to contradict the idea that war is grotesque?

• The beauty of the lilies on the water.

• The smiling faces of children.

• The silence of the jungle.

• The purple and orange glow of napalm.

What does "proximity to death" bring with it?

• A sense of aliveness.

• Deep bravery.

• Emptiness.

• Gripping fear.

What wakes Tim O'Brien up at night 20 years later?

• Pulling Lemon's body out of the tree.

• The buffalo incident.

• Lemon's last words.

• Sanders singing "The Lemon Tree".

Who mutilates the water buffalo?

• Tim O'Brien

• Mitchell Sanders

• Rat Kiley

• Curt Lemon

What did the patrol that went up into the mountains end up doing about the noises they heard?

• They ordered an air strike.

• Nothing

• They killed the people making all of the noise.

• They returned back to base to tell their superior.

Tim wants to tell the lady about the baby buffalo that it isn't a war story, it's a ____________.

• death story

• redemption story

• scary story

• love story

O'Brien tells a "truer than true" story about four men on the trail and a grenade. What happens to the men?

• No one really knows.

• They all die.

• One dies to save the others.

• They all live.